Reapplying after Gap Year

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Is it advisable in Yale to reapply the next year, after being rejected on the first attempt? Do adcoms refer to the past admission forms to chart your development? </p>

<p>I am going into national service, so I would have two years to slog over my forms. However, I want to get it over with this year, with just one college application. =) My portfolio would be nicer next year, with the addition of probably 2 Community involvement projects and 1 research attachments, along with my army experience. Having said so, it wouldn’t be as drastically different from those who do get an entire gap year off.</p>

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<p>Applicants seem less likely to get in the second time around.
You really need to do something amazing in that time.</p>

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<p>The two students I know who were rejected and reapplied after a gap year were both rejected again. I’d recommend concentrating your efforts on different schools that are a better match for your statistics.</p>

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<p>I took a gap year off after being rejected from Yale. I was an international student, and lived in japan. After receiving my rejection, I got a job at a multi-national restaurant chain as a marketing associate. After 6 months, I got an offer tour Korea as a motivational speaker for young people, and made several recordings of my speeches, which sold in the tens of thousands in Korea. And in succeedingly, I got a position as a production/tour manager for an acapella group at Yale, and made about $18,000 in two weeks.</p>

<p>But all in all, when I applied after my gap year, I was rejected again. So, unless you find a cure for AIDS or singlehandedly solve poverty in Africa, the chances are low.</p>

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<p>You actually git rejected? Wth</p>

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<p>maybe you had a really low SAT score or something?</p>

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<p>Didn’t you get into any other schools this year? If you did, you would have been better off going one of those schools than taking a gap year.</p>

<p>But it’s too late for that, so when you’re applying to Yale next year, apply to some other schools too. There are many colleges out there, and one, or even a bunch, may turn out to be a better fit for you than Yale is.</p>

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<p>Luckily, I haven’t applied yet. I am studying for my GCSE A levels now. I really hope to get over this application business early. Guess I should patient though. =(</p>